- Elsa Dorfman via Wikimedia Commons
- James Tate (foreground) in the Grolier Bookshop in Harvard, Mass., in the 1960s.
Yale Union is getting a French exchange student! Sort of. YU has partnered with Paris arts space castillo/corrales, and the two groups are “[swapping] houses, people, and money” this summer, say YU reps in a press release. The stateside iteration of this is the group exhibition, “Theory of Achievement,” which opens August 1.
Blue Sky Gallery Executive Director Todd J. Tubutis has stepped down from his post, and will be relocating to Lincoln, Nebraska as associate director of the Sheldon Museum of Art. Tubutis announced his move via email this month, in a letter sent to Blue Sky members that counted last fall’s retrospective exhibition at the Portland Art Museum among the gallery’s recent successes.
A new Portland literary journal, the Timberline Review, was announced last week in a press release sent by Broadway Books, which will host the magazine’s first reading on August 4. The first issue will be available August 1. The journal will be produced by local writers’ org Willamette Writers.
The poet James Tate, who died earlier this month, will be eulogized with a reading this Friday at Mother Foucault’s, cohosted by local writers Jeff Alessandrelli, Zachary Schomburg, Hajara Quinn and Mike Young. Tate lived in western Massachusetts, where he taught in the MFA program at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (though he was originally from the Midwest). His poems are notoriously easy to love. If you’re not familiar, this is a good place to start, but my favorite Tate line has to be this one: “Any poodle under 10 inches high is a toy.“